Sawgrass Sky is a coming-of-age story, a Floridian memoir-in-verse. Through poems of various style and form, Hemmert defines the relationship between landscape and home in terms psychological, natural, and familial.
ANDREW HEMMERT is a sixth-generation Floridian. His poems have appeared in various magazines, including The Cincinnati Review, The Journal, Michigan Quarterly Review, Poetry Northwest, and Prairie Schooner. He won the 2018 River Styx International Poetry Contest. He earned his MFA from Southern Illinois University Carbondale, and currently lives in Colorado Springs, Colorado.
